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Topic: Living With Epilepsy - Adults

A place to share questions, concerns, and challenges that adults with epilepsy may face in understanding, managing and living with seizures.

To the doctor I shall go...

01/2005 | 6 Comments

Okay, I took the first step; I went to the doctor today. We have Kaiser, so I had to see my general practicioner first and get a referral to a...
fed up waiting....

01/2005 | 5 Comments

hey,ive been a member on this site now for a few months as i have been experiencing what i call seizures since the beginning of last summer.At the...
Memory loss?

01/2005 | 11 Comments

Hello, After skimming a few topics & their replies, am I correct in assuming others w/ epilepsy suffer from short or long-term memory loss? Please...
Something strange is going on

01/2005 | 0 Comments

I don't know if this is E related or not?? I have been seeing color "auras" for the last few days..most noticeable at night and only out of my right...
JAE---Anyone have this??

01/2005 | 1 Comments

Hi guys~~ Anyone out there have JAE or Juvenile Absence Epilepsy?? Similiar to JME. IT comes with Absence that may or may not be photic triggered, and...
Epilepsy and Relationships

01/2005 | 26 Comments

My name is Tiffany, I am 29 years old and have been suffering with CPS for 14 yrs. I consider myself a very strong and capable person and have never...
New to Epilepsy....help!

01/2005 | 9 Comments

36 yr. old, married w/2 children,dog,horse,full happening. I own a bar three hours away that is profitable and I don't want to sell. I had 2 grand mal...
Eye discomfort

01/2005 | 9 Comments

Hi, all. Just curious -- has anyone experienced any eye discomfort with your epilepsy? As I have been preparing to go back to the doctor {after 15...
Talking during Seizures?

01/2005 | 1 Comments

Hello, I have had seizures since I was 12 yrs old, diag. at 13 with epilepsy and now I am 23 and not much has changed. I have most of my seizures...
Screaming during a seizure???

01/2005 | 44 Comments

I'm just wondering, apparently I scream while having a seizure, enough so that someone could think I was being murdered... Is this normal? I'd really...
what do think

01/2005 | 19 Comments

hey, what do you guys who have comlex partial seizures with the auras tell people when you have a seizure, i mean the fiends or family who dont know...
pediatrician or neuro??

01/2005 | 4 Comments

i was recently told by a pediatrician that i was epileptic and have had 3 seizures, 1 complex and 2 simple partials.I saw a neurologist today for the...
memory and seizures.

01/2005 | 21 Comments

I've read that a number of people on this site have bad memories. Is this a result of seizures or the medication? I also have NO interest in sex. This...

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